Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.23 i'm not a subscriber of this list (i read it via the web and via usenet gateway) but wished to pass these noticed things along...
sorry, also be gentle with me, i didn't want to send this as three different bugs. :) p.s. thank you to everyone who's done the work to get to this point. my woody system does boot and i had to go via an unusual route since i didn't have cd's and only had a few floppy disks to write to (not the roughly thirty i would have had to do to get the base system installed). it's not quite configured yet, but i was greatly happy just to get it to where i could boot and get the base system via pppoe. 1. in the document: http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy the following section states: ---quote--- 4.3.2 Writing Disk Images From DOS, Windows, or OS/2 If you have access to an i386 machine, you can use one of the following programs to copy images to floppies. [...snip...] NTRawrite is an attempt to create a contemporary version of Rawrite/Rawrite3 that is consistently compatible with WinNT, Win2K and Win95/98. It is a self-explanatory GUI application; you select the disk drive to write to, browse to the disk image you want to place there and hit the Write button. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntrawrite/ ---endquote--- anyways, this last bit could mislead someone to thinking that NTRawrite could be used on a Win95/98 system, but after downloading and looking at it the stuff says WinNT/2000 and nothing about Win98/95. attempts to use in on Win98 didn't work. (using the other programs mentioned worked just fine so i ended up using those eventually and all is fine now) 2. when going to report this bug using the section: http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-administrivia.en.html ---quote--- 12.2 Contributing to This Document If you have problems or suggestions regarding this document, you should probably submit them as a bug report against the package boot-floppies. See the bug or reportbug package or read the online documentation of the Debian Bug Tracking System. [...] ---endquote--- note that the package name is boot-floppies, but on the actual: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages page the package name is boot-floppy (so if the above doesn't work i did try, but selected the name with the more recent use). 3. while trying to find the version of the pseudo-package to put in the second line above i had to go look in some rather odd places (and a search on the packages didn't find what sounded like the right version either -- eventually i tracked it down via the list that i subscribe to (boot) and i hope it's the right one (the images i used were downloaded 5/27/02 so i think they're the current ones). well anyways it would have been helpful to have those pseudo-packages and the versions listed in the package lists that i searched (only one showed in "stable" and it was a further along version) or to have the various versions available show up in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages or something that would be easily found. ant (much thanks again (and hoping this msg actually works)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
